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Deutscher Herbst: ein hochbrisantes Kapitel jüngster Zeitgeschichte – spannend und fundiert erzählt Eine Szene wie aus einem Krimi: Zwei Limousinen biegen um die Ecke. Plötzlich rollt ein Kinderwagen auf die Straße. Die Autos bremsen, es fallen Schüsse. Vier Menschen sterben im Kugelhagel, ein Überlebender wird fortgeschleppt.Doch dieses Szenario ist keine Fiktion, sondern bildete am 5. September 1977 den blutigen Auftakt des Deutschen Herbstes. Die Geiselnahme von Arbeitgeberpräsident Hanns Martin Schleyer durch ein Kommando der Roten Armee Fraktion und die anschließende Entführung der Lufthansamaschine »Landshut« hielten die Bundesrepublik sechs Wochen lang in Atem. Viele Deta...
Buddenbrooks
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Giving Ground
This volume seeks to address a number of broad questions, including: what is the role and limit of urban space in the expression of group and individual rights and desires?; do democratic social relations require spatial propinquity?; and what are the characteristics of
Brecht
Heinrich Breloers großes Portrait über Bertolt Brecht: Ein Denkmal wird lebendig. Der bedeutende deutsche Film- und TV-Autor und Regisseur Heinrich Breloer hat mit seinen Filmen und Büchern schon viele Figuren der deutschen Geschichte zu neuem Leben erweckt. Nun stellt er uns Bertolt Brecht vor. Über Jahrzehnte hat er mit Brechts Weggefährten, mit Frauen, Geliebten, Familienmitgliedern und Freunden, Verbündeten und Verstoßenen gesprochen, darüber ein großartiges Buch geschrieben und mit einem Starensemble Brechts Leben verfilmt. »Ich komme gleich nach Goethe«, ruft ein 17-jähriger Augsburger Schüler seiner jungen Liebe Paula entgegen. Das letzte Genie wolle er werden. Seine Freu...
Speer
“Sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the ‘good Nazi.’”—Kirkus Reviews In his bestselling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer’s lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer’s life with what we now know, including information from valuable new source...
German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century
"Life-writing", an increasingly accepted category among scholars of literature and other disciplines, encompasses not just autobiography and biography, but also memoirs, diaries, letters, interviews, and even non-written texts such as film. Whether these were produced in diary or letter form as events unfolded or long after the event in the form of autobiographical prose, common to all are attempts by individuals to make sense of their experiences. In many such texts, the authors reassess their lives against the background of a broader public debate about the past. This book of essays examines German life-writing after major turning points in twentieth-century German history: the First World War, the Nazi era, the postwar division of Germany, and the collapse of socialism and German unification. The volume is distinctive because it combines an overview of academic approaches to the study of life-writing with a set of German-language case studies. In this respect it goes further than existing studies, which often present life-writing material without indicating how it might fit into our broader understanding of a particular culture or historical period.
Blutgeld
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Memory Traces
This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a rupture raises questions concerning the appropriate commemoration, preservation and reinterpretation of the past. The processes of reorientation after unification influenced the self-perception of literary authors as well as the social role, position and status of German literature. They also affected the way writers viewed the competition in which they found themselves pitted against visual and electronic media as rival windows on the past. In the...
Analysing Historical Narratives
For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered here offer a wide-ranging analysis of the textual strategies used by historians. They show how in spite of the pursuit of truth and objectivity, the ways in which historians tell their stories are inevitably conditioned by their discursive contexts.
